A Sea Monster's Tale 🦈

Colin Speedie's book on #BaskingSharks, a journey amidst wild seas, people & #conservation, describing the history of hunting & protection of the iconic species

[A Sea Monster's Tale 🦈 @SeaMonstersTale]

Any #BaskingShark obsessives without A Sea Monster's Tale on their bookshelf?! Christmas is coming...🤔🎁🦈✔️😀
https://t.co/MST1fmW973 @PrincetonNature #shark #sharkconservation #sailing #adventure #conservationoptimism #citizenscience #marineconservation #stockingfiller #MVEC

[UllapoolSharkAmbassador @FinlayPringle]

Good Luck to all the @animalstaruk Young Animal Hero finalists !

💜 #YoungAnimalHero #AnimalStars #AnimalStar

[Callum Roberts @ProfCallum]

3 highly protected marine areas established in England today. The 1038km2 of protection is 60x more than we have, but 70x less than we need, which is 30% of the sea highly protected. At the present rate, it will take us 260 years to reach this level. Welcome news but way too slow

[Polly Pullar @pollypullar1]

Looking forward to this at the Ardchattan Centre with the wonderful @BreegeSmyth #nature #redsquirrels #owls #pinemarten @JennyBrownBooks @TheFriendMag @ScotsMagazine @bonniegala

[The WiSe Scheme @WiSeScheme]

Want to learn about ways to achieve safe and sustainable marine wildlife watching? Book a place on one of our WiSe Standard or Adventure online courses this spring via our website https://t.co/13J7xnpxTE

[The WiSe Scheme @WiSeScheme]

The first WiSe courses for 2023 are now available for booking - see https://t.co/UifTtlgqAa - First up an online Adventure course focusing on England & Wales for coasteering/SUP/kayaking/coast walking practitioners on the 7/8th March @ £100 per person over 2 nights 7-9pm

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This Weds at Glenuig Hall, Colin will be giving a talk on behalf of the Moidart Local History Group on the Basking Shark in Scotland, past, present and future.
All welcome, 1930 start.
#baskingshark #shark #marineconservation #glenuig #lochailort #lochaber #moidart

[Carl Safina @carlsafina]

There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. Perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world’s oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority.
@ian_urbina @cbcpodcasts @latimes
https://t.co/FewrfcIgjt

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Congratulations to the fine team at Irish Basking Shark Group for achieving this momentous result! Thanks, too, to the enlightened TD’s who saw this through - a great day!

[Irish Basking Shark @BaskingIrish]

On this #WorldWildlifeDay, we celebrate a truly momentous occasion. The IBSG welcomes today’s Government announcement that they intend to provide legal protection to basking sharks in Irish waters by listing them on the Wildlife Act. A quick thread (1/n):

https://t.co/0hDs6Q3wvQ

[PETER CURRAN @petercurran1970]

Sparrowhawk family with 5 chicks, a knee rubbing sight from a well hidden hide 🙂

[Conor Ryan @whale_nerd]

Proud to announce the publication of a new open access paper on the historical occurrence of #whales (and #whaling) in Scotland. Many years in the making with @susa_scoter, @denrisch, Russell Leaper and Cherry Allison @iwc_int.

https://t.co/UVB82uom3G

[Hannah Lightley @HannahLightley]

2nd week onboard Bold Ranger looking for #baskingsharks around #Coll & #Tiree 🦈 Awesome common + risso’s dolphins, plenty seabirds but no 🦈’s to be seen. Local fishermen saying everything is 4 weeks late this season, are they still down your way @haleydolton @BaskingIrish ??

[Nicola (Greaves) Tainton @NicolaGreaves5]

Still time to book your place at @mcsuk online talk tomorrow evening with @MirandaKnature and @pb_richardson Everything you need to know about the ocean and climate. https://t.co/SSnRRMSzS2

[Sarah Dolman 💙 @dolmansarahj]

We saw so many dead seabirds on Shetland last week. This is heart breaking. Seabirds were struggling enough already, without this too.

[Alec Moore @AlecBMMoore]

How can historical sources help in #conservation? We examined 275-year old handwritten naturalist's notes to provide further evidence that a few specific reefs on the Welsh coast are vitally important to critically endangered angel sharks, which have become extinct elsewhere

[St Kilda World Heritage Site NTS @StKildaNTS]

Our first marine sighting from #StKilda this season was this adult Basking Shark, seen in Village Bay by multiple visitors this afternoon from in front of the Manse. Let's hope this is the first of many more encounters! @mcsuk @BaskingSharkSco #baskingshark

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@klondyker No! Hope you're ok and can get back out there soon...👍

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@HI_Voices If Highlands includes Islands and the seas in between, and you're interested in Basking Sharks, then look at A Sea Monsters tail. Full of fascinating facts on historic shark hunting, shark conservation and adventure! Check out @SeaMonstersTale - enjoy!

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...and sharks.
New research to better understand the scale and impacts of marine animal entanglement in the Scottish creel fishery
https://t.co/KMcSLeMcIt

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Typo! @theoldforgecbs and best of luck on your fundraising - looking forward to come visit you again!

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We've pledged our support for this great project – have you? Check it out https://t.co/3WCXLhWbfo https://t.co/x6D2MZxLeo @oldforgecbs #oldforgecbs #oldforgeknoydart #knoydart #noroadin #sailing #baskingshark